Camillus Obayi, Anthony Asadu, Paul Nnamchi and Peter Offor
Keywords: Cow bone powder, inorganic coating, corrosion resistance, Martensitic stainless steel, sea water
Abstract:
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal">The major limitation of martensitic stainless steel (MSS) is low corrosion resistance in severe
environments containing chloride ions. Several methods have been used to modify the surfaces of stainless
steels in order to improve both its corrosion and pitting corrosion resistance.
This work aimed at mitigating the corrosion of MSS (AISI 410) via surface
modification using dissolved cow bone (CB) powder. CB samples were dried and
pulverized into fine powder and dissolved in Nitric acid using wet digestion
technique. The dissolved CB was deposited on the MSS surface using spray
deposition method at deposit times of 3, 6 and 9 minutes. The corrosion
behaviour of coated MSS samples was determined in sea water using
Potentiodynamic polarization testing technique. The results showed that CB
deposition improved corrosion resistance of MSS significantly.
The corrosion resistance of the control MSS sample improved from 0.0151
gram/hr to 0.0075 gram/hr, 0.0058 gram/hr and 0.0039 gram/hr for samples coated
for 3, 6 and 9 minutes, respectively. The
results strongly indicate that CB, a readily and
locally available waste material in Nigeria can be used to moderate the corrosion
resistance of stainless steel. </p>
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